Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself will hold Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space. All important policy issues and all other portfolios retained with PM himself.
List of portfolios in the BJP-led government’s Council of Ministers, including 23 Cabinet ministers and 22 Ministers of state.
CABINET MINISTERS
1. Rajnath Singh: Home Affairs
2. Sushma Swaraj: External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
3. Arun Jaitley: Finance, Corporate Affairs, Defence
4. M Venkaiah Naidu: Urban Development Housing, Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliamentary Affairs
5. Nitin Gadkari: Road Transport, Highways Shipping
6. D V Sadananda Gowda: Railways
7. Uma Bharati: Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
8. Dr Najma A Heptulla: Minority Affairs
9. Gopinath Munde: Rural Development, Panchayati Raj, Drinking Water and Sanitation
10. Ram Vilas Paswan: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
11. Kalraj Mishra: Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
12. Maneka Gandhi: Women and Child Development
13. Ananth Kumar: Chemicals and Fertilizers
14. Ravi Shankar Prasad: Communications and Information Technology, Law and Justice
15. Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati: Civil Aviation
16. Anant Geete: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
17. Harsimrat Kaur Badal: Food Processing Industries
18. Narendra Singh Tomar: Mines Steel Labour and Employment
19. Jual Oram: Tribal Affairs
20. Radha Mohan Singh: Agriculture
21. Thaawar Chand Gehlot: Social Justice and Empowerment
22. Smriti Irani: Human Resource Development
23. Dr Harsh Vardhan: Health and Family Welfare
MINISTERS OF STATE
1. General VK Singh: Development of North Eastern Region (Independent Charge), External Affairs, Overseas Indian Affairs
2. Inderjit Singh Rao: Planning (Independent Charge), Statistics and Programme Implementation (Independent Charge), Defence
3. Santosh Kumar Gangwar: Textiles (Independent Charge), Parliamentary Affairs, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation
4. Shripad Yesso Naik: Culture (Independent Charge), Tourism (Independent Charge)
5. Dharmendra Pradhan: Petroleum and Natural Gas (Independent Charge)
6. Sarbananda Sonowal: Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, Youth Affairs and Sports (Independent Charge)
7. Prakash Javadekar: Information and Broadcasting (Independent Charge) Environment, Forest and Climate Change, (Independent Charge) Parliamentary Affairs
8. Piyush Goyal: Power (Independent Charge), Coal (Independent Charge), New and Renewable Energy (Independent Charge)
9. Jitendra Singh: Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences (Independent Charge) Prime Minister Office Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space
10. Nirmala Sitharaman: Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge), Finance Corporate Affairs
11. GM Siddeshwara: Civil Aviation
12. Manoj Sinha: Railways
13. Nihalchand: Chemicals and Fertilizers
14. Upendra Kushwaha: Rural Development Panchayati Raj Drinking Water and Sanitation
15. Radhakrishnan P: Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
16. Kiren Rijiju: Home Affairs
17. Krishan Pal: Road Transport and Highways Shipping
18. Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan: Agriculture, Food Processing Industries
19. Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava: Tribal Affairs
20. Raosaheb Dadarao Danve: Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
21. Vishnu Deo Sai: Mines, Steel, Labour and Employment
22. Sudarshan Bhagat: Social Justice and Empowerment
